Join us on a nostalgic journey where the echoes of Scooby-Doo's mystery van set the stage for a hearty blend of laughter and candid musings. As your hosts, Scott and I reminisce about the bittersweet symphony of life's ups and downs, from the sting of lost interviews with talented guests to the tender challenges of caring for a sightless furry friend. We brush past divisive topics, instead opting to weave tales that strike a chord on the common guitar strings of humanity, like the dance of long-term love and the grace found within life's stumbles.
Our conversation sails through reflections on fleeting time, with laughter and a twinge of melancholy as we remember past guests gone too soon and revisit personal stories of military service, reminding us all to clutch today with both hands. We explore the curiosities of the animal kingdom, chuckle over the oddity of botanical classifications, and find amusement in the seemingly impossible – like Charlie Chaplin losing a contest of his own likeness.
As the episode winds down, we share triumphs over allergies, how a simple bottle of barbecue sauce can forge unexpected connections, and the shifting tides of societal views on marijuana. We marvel at the exhilarating world of podcast promotion and Taylor Swift's latest tunes, leaving our listeners with anecdotes, insights, and perhaps a dash of inspiration to seize their own days. Stay tuned as we promise more tales, tunes, and heartfelt banter in our upcoming episodes.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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IG - Powers31911
Join us on a nostalgic journey where the echoes of Scooby-Doo's mystery van set the stage for a hearty blend of laughter and candid musings. As your hosts, Scott and I reminisce about the bittersweet symphony of life's ups and downs, from the sting of lost interviews with talented guests to the tender challenges of caring for a sightless furry friend. We brush past divisive topics, instead opting to weave tales that strike a chord on the common guitar strings of humanity, like the dance of long-term love and the grace found within life's stumbles.
Our conversation sails through reflections on fleeting time, with laughter and a twinge of melancholy as we remember past guests gone too soon and revisit personal stories of military service, reminding us all to clutch today with both hands. We explore the curiosities of the animal kingdom, chuckle over the oddity of botanical classifications, and find amusement in the seemingly impossible – like Charlie Chaplin losing a contest of his own likeness.
As the episode winds down, we share triumphs over allergies, how a simple bottle of barbecue sauce can forge unexpected connections, and the shifting tides of societal views on marijuana. We marvel at the exhilarating world of podcast promotion and Taylor Swift's latest tunes, leaving our listeners with anecdotes, insights, and perhaps a dash of inspiration to seize their own days. Stay tuned as we promise more tales, tunes, and heartfelt banter in our upcoming episodes.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
X - @PodcastScott
IG - Powers31911
On this episode of the Powerspoint Podcast, scott and I have a chat about things. We drop some facts and Scott gives a mystery review. Hey, scott, drop the mysterious beat. Scooby-doo, where are you? We got some work to do now, scooby-dooby-doo, where are you? We need some help from you now. Come on, scooby-doo. I see you Pretending you got a sliver. You're not fooling me, cause I can see the way you shake and shiver. You know we've got a mystery. So, scooby-doo, be ready for your act. Don't hold back and, scooby-doo, if you come through, you're gonna have yourself a Scooby snack Scooby-Dooby-Doo.
Speaker 1:Here are you. You're ready and you're willing. Yes, we can count on you.
Speaker 2:Scooby-Doo. I know we can catch that villain. Well, hello, hello. Welcome back to the Powers Point Podcast. I don't even know what. I know we're season five, don't know what episode. Who cares anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh come on.
Speaker 2:Come on. Five don't know what episode and who cares anymore. Oh, come on, come on. You know, man, it's been one crazy uh a month. You know, not even a day, not even a week. Yeah, what a freaking month, man, and uh. For those that are just joining us right now, I just want to say welcome before I start throwing us all out there. If you're new to the show, I appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker 1:He's Scott and I am Jim.
Speaker 2:I was getting ready to work my way there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:On this show. We talk about anything and everything, with the exception of two things we don't talk religion, we don't talk politics, we're not experts, don't claim to be and don't want to be, because we talk everything under the sun, which I'm about to do, Might peel back the curtain a little too.
Speaker 1:Someone shoved him in the back.
Speaker 2:All right. So we're back, and sorry for that, I had a little blind dog and he don't know where he's at. He's up in the heights and I don't want him to fall again, as he fell down the stairs yesterday.
Speaker 1:Oh geez.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, Great times, man. I'm telling you it's been a bad month. I had a great vacation and that was the only thing good in this month. You know, last week Jim and I had a great interview. We had two amazing guests on not one, but two different actresses who excel in their field, at the things that they do, and they they gave us advice on like getting in the acting business. They told us a lot of cool things.
Speaker 1:A lot of things I never heard before in other interviews too, so this was great.
Speaker 2:And Saturday. If I don't get it out on Friday, then Saturday I sit down and when I'm like got really nothing to do, and then I sit because it takes hours to edit this thing. And so I sat down at the computer, I went to Zoom to pull up the audio and I played it. It was there. It was there, jim, but the only part that was there was like two minutes of just you and I talking at the end of the show. Oh my gosh, and it was at first. It said 138. And I was like, oh great, an hour and 38 minutes. But it was only one minute and 38 seconds, yeah, and it's at the very end that you and I talked. You know, because I kind of rushed through things to get it. You know the end is because I had other podcast things to do.
Speaker 1:Usually. If we don't finish, like with the guests, everybody will leave the room and then you and me will get back on and and touch up and finish up what we missed or something you know, an ending or something. Right, right, well.
Speaker 2:I got that.
Speaker 1:Oh man.
Speaker 2:We don't. We don't need that next show, oh my God. But yeah, the hardest thing I've ever had to do. You know I've told you that. Hey, something happened. I'm blaming the program because it didn't say recording up in the corner, but the hardest part was eating that humble pie. You know, like two of the loveliest people in the world to me and I had to tell them both.
Speaker 1:You just wasted your time.
Speaker 2:I wasted your time and I apologize. You know, and I was a little nervous on hitting that enter button. I don't know what it is in me. I just lately I've been trying to be a perfectionist on this pod, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know you could tell me anything and you know, with my demeanor I don't get mad at you, I don't. I know you're doing all this, you know a lot about this stuff that I don't know, so why would I get mad? But it's so.
Speaker 2:It's so celebrity kind of thing but you know one, you got away from your family for like an hour. Yeah, you know, you can never get that time back, you know what am I doing here, you? Know, know. So like it sucks, it sucks a lot. You know me, I'm always away from my family. I don't care. If I'm with them, then there's something wrong.
Speaker 2:They're usually kicking me out of a room or being told to go somewhere, or hey, why don't you go pick Sean up and just be gone all day, and you know, and that's the way it is for me. But that's OK, wait till. You've been married for over 20 something years, man.
Speaker 1:Well, I've been married since 01 and we were together before that.
Speaker 2:Oh, shoot man.
Speaker 1:And we were together like seven years before that or something. So we've been together since like 94.
Speaker 2:Holy cow. We got married in 2002.
Speaker 1:Summer of 93, when I graduated.
Speaker 2:You know, the reason why we got married in 2002 is so we can have the little expression on the card married in 2002. So we can have the literal expression on the card we said we do in 2002. And and that's the only way I remember it, man, and it was columbus- day she first said no, in 2000.
Speaker 1:Oh wait, that don't rank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've been together a long time I had to be a ventriloquist on on that one, you know sure I do, you know, okay, don't, okay, don't wake her up.
Speaker 1:Don't wake her up, please.
Speaker 2:The hardest thing I ever did was hit an inner you know, say hey, I feel like a complete moron here.
Speaker 1:You just say can I say this real fast to get it out and they were so cool about it.
Speaker 2:Man, you know they both text back relatively fast and holy cow, dude, it's never, never again, I'm never coming on this episode again.
Speaker 1:I don't blame them?
Speaker 2:I wouldn't either, you know, but like they're working on film festivals and meeting with important people, and I mean they were even both dressed up, yeah, they were and I are.
Speaker 1:You and I are just in like t-shirts and hoodies I was in a flannel and stuff and I'm like, oh man, they're like, oh, look at this. This wine, this prosecco goes good with this dress and I'm looking like uh, and maybe next time I'm showing up in a suit that's what we should do. We should dress up to the nines and stuff and then watch them like oh, I feel a little outdressed.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna do it. Man powers is gonna get back in a suit dude just from the waist up, just from the waist up. I don't care about the pants, I ain't standing up. It's all commando down here.
Speaker 1:I'm not shaking my thing, dude doing, doing my thing I got some suits I can put on, I'll do it too. I wish I had a top hat. Oh, I need a fedora or a top hat I want to get a bowler cap.
Speaker 2:A bowler hat okay, peaky powers I look like mr fuji just cut someone's head off with it it's pretty bad that the only thing that we've put out so far this month is a wrestlemania prediction that we didn't get everything right. So no, you know, I didn't even go back because I was like how is it wrong?
Speaker 1:you, I got the, I got the most not to brag but I'm sure you did, man, I'm sure you did. Well, what happens is when you, when you make the predictions and you see what happened, and then once you see, oh yeah, I could see the way they're going now, but it's like you couldn't think of it back then.
Speaker 2:Right, and you know, wrestlemania was a big thing. We had a big party here on night one and night two I hung out with Tom Green it was WrestleMania or Tom. You know, I told the story last week but since that story never appeared, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:I got it off my bucket list. Man, I've always wanted to meet Tom for like 30 years and at first I was like, nah, I'm just going to have another party here. So I was all getting ready to call everybody and be like, hey, party night too, you know. And then my kids like, don't regret things, man, just just, you've got to do it. And the weird thing is is in his comedy he talked about regrets, wow. And I thought, wow, this is a coincidence. You know, I'm kind of meant to be here. It's fine, very cool dude man, very humble.
Speaker 2:It makes me laugh when I invite people to show because they're like, oh, yeah, we won't really meet them, you know. And then not just him, but like other comedians over the last couple of years I've invited people and they're like, yeah, right, you know. And I'm like, no, we'll have dinner with them. And they're like, yeah, right, or you know. And then I post pictures and they're like, dude, why don't you tell me, yeah, that is like my, my biggest kind of like f off when I post the pictures, you know, because they didn't believe me. Oh, and to break the curtain again.
Speaker 1:Uh, when I told my wife that you saw tom green in, that she goes oh okay, you know he's not, he wasn't my cup of tea. And I said yeah, mine either. And she said I said yeah, but Scott offered me to, uh offered if I came with him that night. And she goes why didn't you go? And I said I don't know. And I said he had dinner with uh, tom Green. I said she goes.
Speaker 2:Well, now you really should have gone, just to say, you know, with Tom Green there's been times where where I look back at me being on the mess hall and and talking to Mr Leahy from the trailer park boys, and then we're like, hey, we've taken up a lot of your time, you know, we apologize, and it's his one sentence stays in my head, man, and I can't get it out. He said I got all the time in the world, boys, dude. A month later he was gone. Oh my God, you know. So like seven people that we've interviewed on the mess are no longer with us. So I feel, whoa.
Speaker 1:And you guys haven't been on for like 20 years or nothing.
Speaker 2:Right Caught the mess hall curse, you know, because over there, but over there I've been in business for eight and a half years on the mess hall. Yeah, you know, and we've interviewed psychics. They're gone. I wonder if they've seen it coming.
Speaker 1:Well, I hope they made plans. Next.
Speaker 2:Thursday.
Speaker 1:I got to get stuff done.
Speaker 2:You know, musicians like LFO and two of the three are gone, yeah, and some really funny comedians gone. You know, one of our first guests we talked about on that show was Ewan McIntosh, who plays Big Keith on the original Office from the UK. He was like the big fat guy and then I seen on the news last month Ewan McIntosh dies and I'm like holy cow man and our grandparents told us that life is short.
Speaker 1:And our parents told us but we were kids and we were like man. Yeah, everybody says that is short and our parents told us, but we were kids and we were like man. Yeah, everybody says that. But when you get to like past 40 and 50, you start realizing that that crap was real man dude, we got less time to live than we've lived so far I know I go, okay, I'm getting to 50, okay 50.
Speaker 1:And I go, do I got 50 more? And then you think about it 50 more years. A lot of people don't make it to freaking like 100 or like 90s and stuff. It's like scary kind of thing.
Speaker 2:You know, I always said that I'd be checked out by 33.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, Jesus is here.
Speaker 2:Oh no, not because of that, you know, it's because I went through a lot in the military and that, you know, and I was like, yeah, I'm not going to live to see this day, you know. And then you get out and get a little older and now I feel like I got one foot in the grave and one on ice, it's. You know, I'm trying, I'm treading well here.
Speaker 1:Like you were saying, you have to live, take opportunities and live for the moment. It's more clear than ever.
Speaker 2:When you get older, you got to just do it, man. You know, and I never believed or understood when my elders would say, uh, the older you get, the faster time goes by and they're like, yeah, right, remember when we were little I don't know about you, but I for me but christmas used to take forever because we wanted some new toys. Yeah, it took forever. Now it's like, oh crap, I gotta start buying christmas presents because it it's like next month or, in my case, sometimes it's tomorrow. Yeah, you know I've been there and and you got a kid.
Speaker 1:So you were like extra, like because you're trying to time and put everything in in a day and make it, make everything count. You know, with timing and stuff and the world, now more than ever, is according to time, because the internet made you conscious of other stuff going around, or back in our days when we were kids, we didn't know what was happening in the next Illinois or nothing, or the next state, because all it was was your town and that's all you cared about, and your friends and your family, and that's all I see and that's all it matters, you know as long as you were home before the streetlights came out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ok, blind ignorance is better than, uh, knowing everything. I think, yeah, in some ways.
Speaker 1:that's why I think that the internet is bad.
Speaker 2:I do too, really do the good thing is meeting the people that we get to meet and talking to scott powers on this podcast yeah, yeah right. Imagine doing this back in the day would be on the transistor radio like hey can you believe these gas prices?
Speaker 1:what's 35 cents? What I had told a guy? What's going on with nixon?
Speaker 2:jimmy carter and his peanuts peanuts not called down their peanuts that guy's been living in hospice for over a year.
Speaker 1:I meant, come on he has to be the last best president ever. I mean he was 90 making houses until he, his body really can't even walk anymore and stuff. It's like that guy was a saint, I think nah, he's just there now yeah, he's just. He's just there and something's keeping him going. I think it's niceness. Well, it ain't his wife. Oh, come on, let's not get into. No politics, no politics like I said.
Speaker 2:So I apologize to the listeners because they've been just listening to the wrestlemania predictions and I had. It's only like 20 minutes, you know, and and it's still hung in there so with the interview, uh, or did you?
Speaker 1:when you talked to them, did they say never again, or did they say that they would come back, or oh, they definitely are coming back, so it'll be in May. Whenever we, if something comes up, whenever they can schedule it with their busy schedule.
Speaker 2:You know, with my background here, man, I keep staring at the one person in the corner that back there on the bottom of the screen she's like got her hair and yeah, I don't know why I moved my house. You can't see my mouth, I don't want to look at your mouse. I ain't looking down there but she's like looking up and smiling at me with her hand.
Speaker 1:Like we're recording here. Lady, stop looking at us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, mind your own business, have a drink.
Speaker 1:That guy's looking, looking in your purse.
Speaker 2:Hey, don't worry about the cause. We're going to take a quick commercial, why not? And then, when we come back, we got some fun facts. And then the mysterious review. Are you tired of your?
Speaker 1:couch being uncomfortable. Well, do something about it. Get off the couch and go do something. Here's your tip from Powerspoint.
Speaker 2:Podcast All right, all right, as Matthew McConaughey says. All right, all right, all right, we're back. And before, in the introduction, you said we had some facts, and I do have some facts Always ready. I messaged myself in the middle of the night to check the facts. So just the facts, ma'am. Here we go, all right. In Switzerland it's illegal to own just one guinea pig because they get lonely.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute, you have to have two, correct? What if one just wants to be alone? I mean, if you buy two and then they fight all the time you're like see, see, I only wanted one well, they want you to have two that's nah you're forcing. I don't know, that sounds weird. Yeah, I don't like someone telling me I have to buy two right, right.
Speaker 2:Are they gonna pay for the extra food?
Speaker 1:exactly, that's the biggest complaint. I'd have you clean up this poop, these uh jelly beans a friend of mine.
Speaker 2:He used to have some guinea pigs running around. He just let them run around the living room and, uh, they make some weird chirping sound and I never they, I never. They look like really hairy hippie chihuahuas. It's a little because they were big. Yeah, you know and and interact. What the heck is that?
Speaker 1:See, they remind me of mice or rats.
Speaker 2:I don't like that. Maybe it's a hippie rat just trying to get by. Okay, a flock of crows is known as a murder.
Speaker 2:I'll have to drop some facts on you someday, because I know a lot of the pets when you call them in a group, like what they're called you know, I was coming out of work one day and I seen a hawk fighting a crow and they were on the ground just beating the hell out of each other, a hawk and a crow, wow yeah, and they were actually like rumbling, like rolling, you know, like a peck here, peck there, pecker there, and the crow was giving the hawks a run for his money. Dude, well, crows are huge, dude, right, right, they're like black chickens I would have loved to seen that you never see.
Speaker 1:You think of those two animals. You. I'd never want to see them. That's like a pay-per-view.
Speaker 2:Right, and I was sitting there in Chesterton, indiana, in the cul-de-sac there on Venturi Boulevard.
Speaker 1:I wonder what sparked the fight.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I seen a hawk go after a duckling and it hit the water. But as the hawk came in, the adult duck jumped on top of the hawk and held the hawk underwater and killed it. Oh my god, Wow Because the hawk's trying to come up out of the water and the duck used to push it back under.
Speaker 1:Let's see how you breathe underwater.
Speaker 2:So only the hawk was hurt. Wow, the little duckling got away, man parent of the year. This one's a little bit crazy.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 2:Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.
Speaker 1:Oh, the classifications, what?
Speaker 2:Bananas are considered berries, but strawberries are not.
Speaker 1:Because strawberries grow on the ground and bananas grow on trees. Right, it's a berry, or is that it?
Speaker 2:I don't know the reason why it doesn't tell me, man, it just says Wow, that's like that whole uh peanut is not a nut, it's a legume. All right, how about this? The shortest, because there's a lot of things going on in the in the world right now. Oh yeah, the shortest war in history was between britain and zanzibar. On august 27th 18, zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Speaker 1:I heard about that. It was like a couple months ago. I saw the article or a video on YouTube and it said the shortest war ever and I was like what? And I couldn't remember who the other country was, but I know it was Britain. That's hilarious. I changed my mind. I changed my mind.
Speaker 2:I mean, come on, by the time the officers got out of bed and put their pants on and brushed their teeth they walked out and they're like ah, the war is over.
Speaker 1:They're like we're going to do it, we're going to, hey, we're going to war. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And they all come with all the big boats and stuff Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, war's over. They said.
Speaker 2:You didn't say they had a big A group of flamingos is called flamboyance.
Speaker 1:Yes, I've heard that one.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. How about this? Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible. That'd be awesome, I would eat some stuff. I would do it If I knew I wasn't going to die of some crazy virus that was in the tomb. They got stuck in the honey. Some curse.
Speaker 1:I want cursed Egyptian honey.
Speaker 2:Do you play rock paper scissors on that one? Like, yeah, you go first and then give it an hour and then I'll taste it. See what's going on.
Speaker 1:My wife, my wife and son love honey. At the house we have like four different types of honey all the time and, like I mean, they go crazy over honey. So I totally see them getting honey anywhere. Because it's the more crazy Because my wife's told me that you could always just reheat it and stuff and it keeps.
Speaker 2:How about this? Charlie Chaplin once lost in the Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
Speaker 1:He's like that's it, I'm done, I'm out, my career's over. You take the damn job, then here you be quiet and do this.
Speaker 2:And I know that to happen to one other person too, Dolly Parton. So them two people both have lost at their own lookalike contest.
Speaker 1:When are they going to have a Scott Powers lookalike?
Speaker 2:contest. Oh, dude, you know what, gavin? He pulled up to drop his kids off at school and there's kids standing around the sky, you know, and the guy was eating hot dogs and all that, go figure. And he took a picture of it, man, and people believe it was me. He thought it was me. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:Look, even my children think it's you. They're like they're Scott, Scott, Scott, what are you?
Speaker 2:doing here? Oh, fuck's sakes, got to move again.
Speaker 1:I got to get away from him.
Speaker 2:All right, I got two more, okay, since other one. Uh wasn't rolling that great. Uh, they're all good. There's a tree in wales that's been growing since before the last ice age in wales. Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that's the one that somebody just chopped down what? And it caused a big country uproar about this vandalizer that he got so drunk he chopped the tree down and it was over 1400 years old.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry that that should be instant execution. I'm sorry that's wrong that tree back up and hang over me yeah or no, drop the tree on him, pick it up and drop it on him. So the tree killed him. It's like, yeah, kill me, right, right, don't play stupid, I was drunk. No, you're just being an asshole.
Speaker 2:You know, and the tree, the tree was standing by itself, man, it was like like a national treasure.
Speaker 1:And you think those like old trees, like that. It's in those old the countries that there's not a lot of new buildings and I had a lot of population and for someone just to go do that makes me mad and let me say there was nothing around in this town like.
Speaker 2:These are the areas where the towns are like three, four miles from each other. Yeah, and it's all open, and a cottage here and a little house there and a big tree. That's been there forever. So, yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 1:When people rebuild, like the people put new housing and all this other businesses and stuff and they destroy nature. I hate that stuff. There's a farm right by our house. This old guy and his family, they have this farm and he hasn't started getting it ready yet and it's already starting to get warmer. I'm like, oh crap, did the guy pass away or something Right? And then I told my son I go, I don't want the city to like sell the land and all of a sudden the ugly building or something goes there. I just want some another farmer to buy that and just be another farmer.
Speaker 2:You know, and I like the people, like the youngsters, that there's a couple of farms by my house that are built in like 1876. It's got the signs on, it's not the address and you know, the one barn looked like it was going to fall. So these people bought the farm and then made the barn to stand whole again.
Speaker 2:They put better pieces to keep it up and right, they still use the weathered wood and then just slap some paint on it, you know, but the barn looks phenomenal. That's awesome. Got one more fact yep, some cats are allergic to humans, really, so it's about time we get yeah, when people complain I am allergic to that, then, uh, the cat be like. You know what? Well, I'm allergic to you and I can't say nothing, wow so that is odd.
Speaker 1:I've never heard that, but you could be allergic to anything. Could be allergic to anything else, really right.
Speaker 2:Everything is allergic to me.
Speaker 1:That's why everything stays away is there anything that you are allergic to, anything else? Really, right, everything is allergic to me. That's why everything stays away. Is there anything that you are allergic to? That's weird.
Speaker 2:that would be considered weird than regular allergic stuff. I used to be allergic to barbecue sauce, really Open pit, oh, one type To be exact. But you know, the doctor told me hey, you're allergic to this, don't ever eat it again. And a couple of years later, down the road I was like man, I like open pit. You know, I'm gonna give it a go. Give it the old college go and I was fine.
Speaker 2:I was fine, you know. That's why my my mom's highly allergic to shrimp, you know, and I keep wanting to tell her not go ahead, try it just. Uh, I don't believe that stuff. As you get older you can either become allergic to it, but I wonder you know, like my aunt, she's allergic to strawberries, but she still eats them.
Speaker 1:One thing I was I'm allergic to. That nobody believes me is watermelons.
Speaker 2:And why is that the sugar in it?
Speaker 1:I don't know when I was a kid, my mom would enter me into a watermelon eating contest in Hobart.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you continued that sentence man. No, yeah, Pause.
Speaker 1:My mom entered me. No, stop it. I used to get entered into watermelon eating contests as a kid and I would eat the watermelon and stuff and all of a sudden the next day I'd have a rash on my face. Oh, maybe you'll grow out of it. And then a year or so later I'd get another one and I'd get another rash. So nobody. And even now, all these years, I don't want to eat watermelon, just try it out and then go to work next day. It looks like I was with a prostitute the night before because my face is all ratched.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, it's like they'll be like are you a tina man? The people are walking around. They all got rashes on their face, dude.
Speaker 1:I don't know if it's the juice. They go try eating it without the juice touching you. How are you going? To do that with watermelon, even if I smell watermelon, like on bubble gum or a scent, my throat starts subconsciously swelling up, feeling like get that away from me. I know what it tastes like from my childhood, but I don't crave it, or the smell just makes me kind of ugh.
Speaker 2:Note to self if Jim comes over, keep the watermelon in the fridge. No watermelons.
Speaker 1:And also my friend at work, my co-worker. He's allergic to marijuana. That's a good thing for indiana. Well, yeah, well no, because at our business that we work at, a lot of people come in and they are just reeking a pot and he starts get. He starts gagging and stuff and has to go into another room or area and like get a, uh, one of those air fan vaporizer things in his face, yeah, yeah, and he has to calm down and epi pen if it gets bad you know I was gonna ask you about that one time because I was at that walmart.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and holy cow, dude people, you know you would think this was legal yeah, as much as exactly, and people are rolling in from. Illinois, close to close to where you work and reeking of it, man, I like to get contact tie walking in the next aisle.
Speaker 1:I mean, you smelled in my store and you're like is this still Indiana? This is supposed to be illegal here, but everybody don't care. It's just terrible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, it's bad, you know. And then the weird thing is I was in illinois and I was going to a toy store while my kid was at the arena doing a dog competition. I get bored at that, you know. I go to just for the new ride or I check, uh, local restaurants in the area, that's all I go for. And uh, there's a cop car sitting in the parking lot at this toy store and there's, like all these people just sitting on the curveball smoking joints, and I get nervous, man, I'm like man, I'm gonna get in trouble, you know, like being even walking by, but nobody cared no, they don't, our old butts.
Speaker 1:They think, oh, the police will get you. And then the people nowadays like no watch, you know, go right in front of people, cops and stuff yeah, that's so weird, man.
Speaker 2:And you know, and like all of canada, it's legal, all of it, and you can actually go online and order it. Uh, like uber, dash or data, uh, you can order from the pharmaceuticals to be delivered to your house, which, or your hotel room, wherever. That's. That's weird to me, man. It's like, it's like a sting you know you're waiting for as soon as you hand them the cash. Next thing, you know, the whole street lights up with police cars all busting you. You know, not that I've ever experienced. Oh, no, no, not, not, no, no no right all right, man.
Speaker 2:So that's all the facts that I got today and I hope everybody likes them. You know we try to educate, we try. And this next part it just came to me at midnight, literally last night at midnight, tortured poets department dropped for all the swifty fans out there, taylor swift's new album came out exactly at midnight and you know I'm not a taylor swift fan. Like she had to sell her soul to the devil or something because she got so big dude. Like she's global, to the point where, like, I listen to all australia radio shows. Right, okay and uh, and we did it here in the states. We had, like you know, for the super bowl the media was waiting for at the airport. Oh, her plane just landed. Her plane just landed, it's pulling into the runway. You know, like australia, like who cares you?
Speaker 1:you know like who cares well, they did this, they kind of did that with Elvis back in the day, wherever he went, not internationally, but oh, elvis is coming, elvis has left the building and you know freaking out.
Speaker 2:Right, I mean I can only think of Elvis and the Beatles. You know, like when the Beatles first came to America, like you see all the people lined up at the airport.
Speaker 1:And when you were actually allowed to go on the runway and you were like 32 years old back then, dude, yeah, maybe 1964, 65, something like yeah.
Speaker 2:But okay. So this album, yeah, it comes in two versions, which taylor didn't used to do until like recently. But she has one clean version album and one explicit, of course. Of course I'm drawn to the explicit because I'm not a kid, yeah, but the crazy part is one album is white and one and one album covers black. You would think that the black cover was the explicit one. Wrong, the white album cover is the explicit one and the dark cover is the clean version. So I listened to this and it's not all like teeny bop jumping around like, yeah, shake it out, you know, like that kind of music she's done that for most of them it's like the first two songs she talks about wanting to kill people.
Speaker 2:The f-bomb was thrown around just randomly thrown around out there, and uh she just broke up with somebody, or no?
Speaker 2:no, no, she's still dating travis kelsey and you know what? He's making her become normal. Because they were just in coachella the big concert, okay, and travis doesn't like to be in the back with the vips and the musicians and all. He wants to be part of the crowd. So he drug, he drug taylor, swift out into the crowd to enjoy it like a normal person, which is really cool, because people are like, oh, she's one of us and nobody bothered her, you know, like like they were jumping around with her and if he was next to her, I'm fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if he was next to her, I'm sure that they knew that they would have got their fingers broke or their nose knocked out in one second for touching her right. Right, that's dangerous, yeah yeah, you know if you're that big to go with people? Well, let's like uh keanu reeves, we said goes on subways and stuff that it's just so dangerous with crazies nowadays. I mean people, people. You don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:When Elvis was in Vegas, he went to go for a walk by himself he's never done that, you know just by himself. So he walked the strip and that one person bothered. Wow, you know why.
Speaker 1:They thought he was an impersonator.
Speaker 2:People thought he was an impersonator. People thought he was an impersonator man and that really bugged alvis, that nobody came up to him to talk to him. So you know, a lot of people in the crowd might think, hey, that's not really taylor swift, you know like why would she be out here with us? Would she be up in the air conditioned vip uh yeah, lounge?
Speaker 1:so you know, sometimes that's good because you know there are a lot of doppelganger lookalikes out there you know, a lot of people say that celebrities want to uh, they lose that going out in public and blending in.
Speaker 2:So maybe this is a way that more celebrities are going to do it now you know, like elvis said, he felt like he was a prisoner in his own house. He couldn't go anywhere, you know. So that's why he was always renting amusement parks in the middle of the night. That's why he would go to restaurants or movie theaters in the middle of the night. After close, here's 20 grand Open that. Open that baby back up.
Speaker 1:If he would have known how it is nowadays, with, like you can't go anywhere without cell phone cameras and cameras on streetlights and stuff, he'd probably say, man, I had it good back then. What was I complaining about?
Speaker 2:But, woody, though, I mean, if you think of like celebrities, nowadays they can walk freely around Los Angeles and not be bothered because people, people just don't care no more. You know the celebrity. Yeah, ok, I am compared to like the 40s, you know, when Hollywood was like at its peak.
Speaker 1:You know like mainly in California, probably. It seems like more people are interested in themselves than who's around them.
Speaker 2:You know, I heard Sean Combs is looking for a place to stay for a million bucks if you hide him out.
Speaker 1:There's places around here, he can come.
Speaker 2:I got an extra room here for a million bucks.
Speaker 1:You don't mind the roosters crowing.
Speaker 2:He can jump on the podcast with me and you. So back to this album has 16 songs. Okay, it's an hour and five minutes long, and again the songs are kind of slow man, and so it's a long hour and five minutes, yeah, and but I enjoyed it. They there's. They got collabs. She's got a couple of collabs on this album. The first song is with Post Malone and I really enjoy Post music. And another song she has man. She brought these guys out of retirement because I haven't heard them in a long time Florence and the Machine.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, my wife likes them.
Speaker 2:Overall, I got great mellow music, but it wasn't bad. Them in a long time. Florence and the machine oh yeah, my wife likes them. Overall, I got a great mellow music, but it wasn't bad. So give it a listen, because she's becoming that, that woman now.
Speaker 1:You know, not that next stage of her life yeah, I think she's coming into her own.
Speaker 2:You know, with the help of this dude she's not singing bad about like ex-boyfriends in this album. Yeah, you know, it kind of started with like the evermore album, that that she threw up there in covid. Uh, that that was a mystery drop, but yeah, she's doing her thing and uh, I'm glad to see that that she is becoming like normalized. Yeah, on certain things, like you know, like the football games and all that, she only got booed when she went to buffalo. But uh, maybe he's uh going to the football games and all that, she only got booed when she went to Buffalo, but maybe these are going to the football games.
Speaker 1:Last couple of years has made her realize something that to stop living in and, like you said, be out there more with people and experience life differently than what you've been experiencing.
Speaker 2:Right, right, you know our friend of the show, trish. She is going to be going to her concert in like November I think it's November, but yes, yes, she bought tickets like a year in advance. Wow, that's nuts.
Speaker 1:My cousin. I just I talked to my cousin and his he's, his son is like graduated a year or two ago and he, him and his girlfriend, are going to Germany and they thought, since we're going to Germany on this one trip they looked it up and they're getting they're going to see Taylor Swift in Germany.
Speaker 2:That's coming up. Yeah, I said wow.
Speaker 1:I said that's just weird, saying like I went to Germany to see Taylor Swift, is it can't get tickets here. I guess that's that bad. And he got him quicker in Germany, he didn't have to wait a year.
Speaker 2:Being a dad. Do you got the disney channel? Um, I think it's on like a sling or something like that. Well, taylor swift has her heirs tour movie on there and, uh, I was gonna watch it. It's an ultra high def. It looks really incredible, but then I put it on pause to see how long it was. It's almost four hours long, man, and I'm like and I know that went from listening in the kyle and jackie o show in australia. I'm not just name dropping them, but they went to the show and they counted the songs and she's saying like 48 songs, man, and in the concert, yeah, that's her heiress tour.
Speaker 2:And I'm, like, you know, even if I liked her, no, no, if I liked more of her music, if I was one of those people, if I was a swifty and I was crying and which I don't understand, but uh, uh, I almost understand it.
Speaker 2:But being in the audience, do I really want to spend four hours plus, plus that that wasn't even the opening act, you know yeah so we got 47, 48 songs, and then you got some nobody pulling off, a whole set of music too, which is like probably like 45 minutes, and then the wait in between for set changes and all that holy cow, dude, you're like you're in it for the day after, like the, after like the 10th or, uh say, 20th song, you're like all right, look man, it's been about a couple hours, man, what's going on here?
Speaker 1:and then you realize you still got like two more hours or three more hours. It's like yeah we gotta go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Taylor, come on you know like thank god for uh like, uh numbered seats when you get the tickets, because man, like at lollapalooza, if you gotta go to the bathroom and you're in like the front, you're never gonna get that spot back again you just bring empty bottles that's a smart thing to do.
Speaker 2:I was gonna try to get a media pass in and send people from uh that I know, from our local starbucks, to go do the job for me, just so I don't have to do it and they're going to be there anyway. So, uh, I've been trying for like three years to get stupid passes to media stuff like that. But man tickets, media passes are still a grand jeez.
Speaker 1:Oh, pete's, yeah, man so how's money floating around this, this big money just all with stuff cost and all and how much people make, and it's not falling our way, man, what the heck.
Speaker 2:That leads me to my next thing. Oh, you know like a lot of things that we do cost a lot of money. You know like not just time, and I got all the equipment in the world, but it needs maintenance.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, and if you are a little mom and pop restaurant in the area and you need a commercial done, you can always message us on Instagram. You can just go to at powers three, one, nine one one. You can go to Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it now. You can go to Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it now, and look up Podcast Scott or even just Facebook. Just look me up Scott Powers or James Bank and give us a ring If you want, like a 30-second commercial. We're not going to like be on prices.
Speaker 1:Can I even say that nowadays I don't know, I'd bleep that out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bleep that out, make it sound more violent. You know we're not going to charge an arm and a leg, no, Just an arm for crying out loud.
Speaker 1:And if it's a place we've gone to and we really like we're really going to, you know, hype it up even more than we would usual.
Speaker 2:We'll get you a couple extra guests in the restaurant or the theater. You know I'm not saying we're going to bring in hundreds of thousands of people, maybe over the next 80 years, but you know we might even go there and do like a live review, like we did at Osaka.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I got one in my head I want to do here in the next week or two, so it's going to be good. And listen to our BC Osaka. I mean, we're pretty man. We break it down from the cleanliness to the taste of the food, to the temperatures of the food, to the staff. You know we could be like that secret shopper that's not so secret on the weekends when you hear this. But yeah, we can make some professionally done commercials for you, like we did for Sticking Together for the last couple of years, who sadly are no longer with us, unfortunately, because the doors have been shut. And uh, yeah, I'm gonna hate losing that.
Speaker 1:But I'm gonna ask around and see who I could find to be a sponsor to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it could be anything, man, if you got like a automotive shop or a local church, you know like yeah, come on, do things for tax free, anyways. Just just just just write it off.
Speaker 1:Come on down to John's Peanut Farm. You'll love our nuts.
Speaker 2:You know, maybe it's an insurance company, maybe it's an avocado like forest, I don't know, but an avocado forest. But yeah, give us a ring. I mean, we, we do things. Uh just dial the phone and or the social media pages and and hit us up, we'll be happy to get back to you. Or if you don't have any of those social medias, you can go to the powers point podcast at yahoocom and uh, shoot us a little email out there and let us know what to talk about.
Speaker 1:Let us know what. If you want some merch, Maybe we can think about getting some merch going.
Speaker 2:Do you need to promote something like the newest Corvette on sale this month of May or June?
Speaker 1:Do you want me to read the phone book for you in my lovely voice?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You still get the phone book.
Speaker 2:Give us a try, and if you don't like us, we're not. We're not under contract. So you know, just, uh, yeah, we'll get you some people, extra people, but yeah, that's uh basically all I got, jim. And uh, yeah, for those that are that took a time, for those that made it this far, you know, thank you, and hopefully you return, because we always try to give a laugh or two, but no more than three, because that's just too much. So we've got some good guests coming up again in May and I'm already talking to others, so I'm going to load us back up again, but, jim, before we leave, give us that knowledge. All right, here's the quote of the day.
Speaker 1:Common sense is like deodorant the people who need it most never use it.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. I laughed in the middle of there, that's all right. Yeah, that's a good one, and I'm going to drop another song in here Funk the Monk.
Speaker 1:What oh?
Speaker 2:we'll bring more episodes.
Speaker 1:Oh, Funk, We'll bring more episodes people sooner. We just had a little hiccup here with some stuff, but don't worry, we will get back on the tracks.
Speaker 2:Right and Germany, I still love you, so we'll talk to you guys later. Bye, no-transcript.